ROXORITY PeopleZen Product Documentation (Copyright © 2008-2010 ROXORITY.com Ltd. All rights reserved.)

Solution Installation and Feature Activation

1. The PeopleZen Setup Package

The PeopleZen setup package (the roxority_PeopleZen.zip file) is a zipped archive containing:

2. Installing the PeopleZen Solution Package

Run Deploy.exe (under user account credentials added to the Farm Administrators group in Central Administration, on the "primary" SharePoint farm or web front-end server — in a multi-server farm environment, that is the server hosting Central Administration) and when the Welcome screen is displayed, click Next to start a series of system checks. To proceed with the installation, all system checks need to succeed:

Click Next and on the following screen, select the Web Applications to deploy PeopleZen to. You can also de-select those Site Collections you do not want the setup wizard, upon successful deployment, to activate the Web Part Feature immediately for you on.

Note: even when PeopleZen is deployed in a Web Application, before you can add and start using the PeopleZen User Profiles Web Part on Web Part Pages inside a web site, the PeopleZen User Profiles Web Part Feature needs to be activated for the parent Site Collection, as described in the Feature Activation section below. For now, the setup wizard performs these activations for you, depending on your selections.

Click Next to start the installation and wait for the deployment jobs and Feature activation to complete. This process can take up to a few minutes.

After deployment and Feature activation have completed, review the installation log:

Once you have successfully completed the setup wizard, you can start using the PeopleZen User Profiles Web Part on Web Part Pages inside the previously selected Site Collections immediately.

3. Activating the Site Collection Feature

The PeopleZen User Profiles Web Part is a SharePoint Site Collection-scoped Feature, which needs to be 'activated' on each Site Collection it is to be used in.

  1. Start from the Web Part Page you want to use the Web Part on. Select Site Settings from the Site Actions menu.
  2. The Site Settings page contains the Site Collection Administration section. In this section, click the Site collection features link. If it doesn't exist, click the Go to top level site settings link in the Site Collection Administration section instead, and on the root web's Site Settings page now displayed, click the Site Collection Features link inside the Site Collection Administration section.
  3. The Site Collection Features page should contain a row titled PeopleZen Web Part.

ROXORITY PeopleZen Product Documentation (Copyright © 2008-2010 ROXORITY.com Ltd. All rights reserved.)